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As Germany, France and other European countries contend with an unprecedented influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, shocking tales of women and children drowning in the Mediterranean Sea are repeated over and over by media networks worldwide. But the distress over refugees landing in Europe has overshadowed...

Malawi – IOM this week facilitated the return of 50 Ethiopian irregular migrants stranded in Malawi. Fifteen of the returnees were children. The migrants are part of a group of 387 Ethiopian migrants held in Malawian prisons for immigration offenses. They were issued travel documents in September 2015 through the collaborative...

4th Century CE — Christianity is introduced into the Axum dynasty in Ethiopia. 7th Century — With the spread of Islam, Ethiopia is isolated from most of the Christian world. The Beta Israel enjoy a period of independence before the power struggles of the middle ages. 9th Century — The...

(UNHCR) – UNHCR announced on Tuesday it had begun airlifts and construction of new camps to help South Sudanese refugees fleeing to Ethiopia, who now total more than 95,000 and are growing at up to 1,000 a day. The UN refugee agency told reporters it was working with its partners...

Israel’s health ministry is to investigate why contraceptive injections were widely given to Ethiopian immigrant women. A new committee will look into allegations that this was done in a deliberate attempt to reduce births in the Ethiopian Israeli community. In December, an Israeli TV documentary produced evidence about the use...

Nasra Ali Barked has survived to the ripe age of 22 because she’s been able to adjust quickly to change. But now, standing in the gleaming steel and glass arrivals hall of Incheon International Airport, the young Somali refugee seems completely overwhelmed by the futuristic world confronting her. “I hope...

Gebre* knew the dangers as well as any 13-year-old. He understood that to be captured fleeing his country by the Eritrean border guards could mean jail or worse. And anyone taking the route to Ethiopia via Sudan could be held for ransom. But what was certain was that soon Gebre...

Everyone in this camp seems to be looking for someone. And those who have stopped searching are fighting off tears. Deng Bullis, 18, is looking for his mother and sister. He was in Kurmuk in South Sudan when the bombs fell in September. And when he heard the explosions he...

Five months after the day she fled from Sudan’s Blue Nile State, Gisman Usman still struggles with the trauma of the bombing of the place where she slept, her three missing brothers and the loss of her left leg. On the September night when the Antonov bomber arrived over her...

The United Nations refugee agency has voiced its concern over reports of two suspected polio cases this week among Somali refugees living in camps in Ethiopia and three cases in the surrounding community. “The immediate priority is to confirm the outbreak, and samples have been collected and sent to Addis...

– The UN refugee agency said Friday that as Somali refugees continue to arrive daily in Ethiopia, the health and nutrition situation is improving in the camps they are heading for. In a related development, the World Bank announced in Washington, DC, on Thursday that it was donating US$30 million...